Request for suggestions for pure JS HTML5 MSE based player for Icecast streams about icecast-server HOT 4 OPEN

You can play an icecast stream in an <audio> tag as long as the stream is based on a codec that your browser can read. Just put its url in the src attribute (<audio> or <source>).

AFAIK, the #6 PR is useful for a a pure JS player that can use icecast metadata (title, etc.) in the stream, the PR is being reviewed by Icecast team.

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Thanks @jucrouzet for your comment.

I understand that putting the URL source in the audio tag should play the stream, but in certain cases the container + codec is not supported natively in the browser (canPlayType). It is supported via MSE (isTypeSupported).

For example, MS Edge supports WebM, VP9 and Opus via MSE but not natively. Please see here - https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/04/18/webm-vp9-and-opus-support-in-microsoft-edge/.

Hence the need to use MSE if one wishes to use open source royalty free container + codecs.

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Well, yep, that's one use case for the pure JS / MSE player I'm doing. But yep, it needs #6 to be merge as it needs chunks to be downloaded via XHR/Fetch, so it needs CORS.

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Is there a pure Javascript based HTML5 player that can play Icecast streams using Media Source Extensions?

Media Source Extensions are not necessary to play an Icecast stream at HTMLMediaElement. I streamed 8 hours of audio using FetchEvent.respondWith(fetch('/path/to/icecast/stream')) https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1161429#c44.

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